29/04/2016
A Real Story Must read ....
So many stupid questions are being asked on the most Glorious & Prestigious Organization of India...
What do you know about Army?Who gave you the right to raise such stupid question on Bravest of the Brave Indian Army?
Those who doesn't know about 62 reality...Should not comment anything about why we lost the war...And those who knows about the reasons after it...should show some sense of responsibility & maturity...
"Ill equipped Indian army lacks of everything except courage..."
-Time magazine report,1962 war time...
Wars may be fought by weapons...but they are won by the blood run through a warriors veins...The warrior's arms which didn't lose the grip of the weapon till the last breath...The Never Give up Spirit...There was no soldier,was shot on his back...
I'm sharing an old but not forgotten incidence of 1962 war...That show what our Army is capable of...When 120 poorly equipped men fought 5000 well equipped chinese soldiers...
They fought Till their guns kept firing...Last bullet...Last Man...
In the silence of 16,000 feet, more than half the way to Everest, a racing heartbeat is the soldier’s only companion. As your comrades die around you, as the enemy arrives in wave after wave, as the bullets run out, in the end it’s only your heart that carries you. So it did in the thin, cold air and unforgiving terrain of Rezang La pass, in the desolation of Ladakh, on 18 November 1962. The orders were blunt and clear that day for the 123 men of the C Company of the 13 Kumaon: protect the town of Chushul.
Hinder and delay the Chinese assault as long as you can.
The frozen quiet of Sunday, 18 November, was broken by the first Chinese attack. One round of invaders was repulsed, then a second. Yet they kept coming. Outnumbered and outflanked, C Company fought on, lead heroically by its commander, Major Shaitan Singh(CO), a Rajput from Jodhpur whose courage matched that of his men. Major Singh moved from post to post, urging his men on. He was shot in the arm and then in the abdomen, but he kept firing back. Eventually, he was too weak to fight. Two or three of the survivors wanted to carry him to safety. He pushed them away and urged them to leave. Then he found his way behind a boulder and bled to death.
MAJOR SHAITAN Singh was eventually awarded the Param Vir Chakra. Three months later, when his body was found and flown to Jodhpur, it received a hero’s welcome. He wasn’t alone in Valhalla. As Major General Ian Cardozo (retd) recounts in Param Vir Chakra: Our Heroes in Battle: “When Rezang La was later revisited, dead jawans were found in the trenches, still holding on to their weapons… Men holding on to the butts of their rifles with the remaining portion blown off testify to the intensity of enemy fire.
Every single man of this company was found dead in his trench with several bullet or splinter wounds. The two-inch mortar man died with a bomb still in his hand. The medical orderly had a syringe and a bandage in his hand when a Chinese bullet killed him. A dozen bodies of Ahirs were found outside their trenches indicating that they had in turn attacked the attacking Chinese when they were killed.”
The Indians had fought to the last man, last round and last bullet. Of the 1,000 mortar bombs with them, 993 had been fired. Jawans were readying to fire the other seven when they were killed.
At the end of the Battle Chinese suffered more than 1000 casualities...Perhaps it was after the incredible defence of Rezang La that TIME magazine, reporting the War of 1962, wrote: “The Indian Army needs almost everything except courage.”
On the morning of November 18 by maybe 5,000-6,000 Chinese with heavy artillery support. A crest behind this ridge prevented Indian artillery from being able to support these Jawans. And what did these Jawans do? They fought to last man, last round.
That's an expression you hear in movies and read in war comics, but that is something that actually happened in the battle of Rezang La. Of the 120 men and officers of this Company, 114 died, five were taken prisoners as wounded—they all escaped—and one was sent back to tell the story of the battle to the rest of the world. And who sent him back? This Company's most remarkable commander, Major Shaitan Singh, who got a Param Vir Chakra for leading this battle.
"..Everyone has to die one day, but let us do something before we die. My son is also in 13 Kumaon. In the 1999 war, he was hit by a shell on his chest, and the doctor called me to the hospital. He said, 'We suggest that you let the splinter be, trying to take it out might create problems...' So my son is there, living with it..."
-Honorary captain Ramchander Yadav (one of the Survivor out of six,Battle of Rezeng-La)
Even after reading this you've questions about Prestige of Indian Army,I have no words for you...Just Pity...nothing more....
